Hi all!
This Workaround is for all that are plaged by kpdf not able to open encrypted PDFs. - It decrypts PDFs with the infamouse empty password (that failes on libpoppler) - It asks for the password for encrypted PDFs and removes the encryption (if password is correct)
How to use: - Save the attached program to your ~/bin (or wherever you would like it to reside) - Change the file association for PDF to use this program - Open some encrypted/not-encrypted PDFs that did not work in plain kpdf.
Commandline: "/where/ever/you/put/it/decrypt-pdf" PDF.pdf ...
TDE specific file URLS like sftp:// don't work, but maybe "somebody" feels the need to add those.
--> KPDF can now handle all PDFs that it could not cope with.
Enjoy. Nik
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On 2025-02-19 04:01:32 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
Hi all!
This Workaround is for all that are plaged by kpdf not able to open encrypted PDFs. - It decrypts PDFs with the infamouse empty password (that failes on libpoppler) - It asks for the password for encrypted PDFs and removes the encryption (if password is correct)
How to use:
- Save the attached program to your ~/bin (or wherever you would like it to
reside) - Change the file association for PDF to use this program
- Open some encrypted/not-encrypted PDFs that did not work in plain kpdf.
Commandline: "/where/ever/you/put/it/decrypt-pdf" PDF.pdf ...
TDE specific file URLS like sftp:// don't work, but maybe "somebody" feels the need to add those.
--> KPDF can now handle all PDFs that it could not cope with.
Enjoy. Nik
-- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...
And in openSUSE, pdfinfo is provided by the pdf-tools package.
Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.6 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.3 tde-config: 1.0
On 2025-02-19 13:34:34 J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
On 2025-02-19 04:01:32 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
Hi all!
This Workaround is for all that are plaged by kpdf not able to open encrypted PDFs. - It decrypts PDFs with the infamouse empty password (that failes on libpoppler) - It asks for the password for encrypted PDFs and removes the encryption (if password is correct)
How to use:
- Save the attached program to your ~/bin (or wherever you would like it
to reside) - Change the file association for PDF to use this program - Open some encrypted/not-encrypted PDFs that did not work in plain kpdf.
Commandline: "/where/ever/you/put/it/decrypt-pdf" PDF.pdf ...
TDE specific file URLS like sftp:// don't work, but maybe "somebody" feels the need to add those.
--> KPDF can now handle all PDFs that it could not cope with.
Enjoy. Nik
-- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...
And in openSUSE, pdfinfo is provided by the pdf-tools package.
Hm... and my version of qpdf doesn't support --remove-restrictions. :-( Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.6 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.3 tde-config: 1.0
Anno domini 2025 Wed, 19 Feb 14:31:26 -0600 J Leslie Turriff via tde-users scripsit:
On 2025-02-19 13:34:34 J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
On 2025-02-19 04:01:32 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
Hi all!
This Workaround is for all that are plaged by kpdf not able to open encrypted PDFs. - It decrypts PDFs with the infamouse empty password (that failes on libpoppler) - It asks for the password for encrypted PDFs and removes the encryption (if password is correct)
How to use:
- Save the attached program to your ~/bin (or wherever you would like it
to reside) - Change the file association for PDF to use this program - Open some encrypted/not-encrypted PDFs that did not work in plain kpdf.
Commandline: "/where/ever/you/put/it/decrypt-pdf" PDF.pdf ...
TDE specific file URLS like sftp:// don't work, but maybe "somebody" feels the need to add those.
--> KPDF can now handle all PDFs that it could not cope with.
Enjoy. Nik
-- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...
And in openSUSE, pdfinfo is provided by the pdf-tools package.
Hm... and my version of qpdf doesn't support --remove-restrictions. :-(
That's bad. I have devuan ceres, qpdf is version 11.10.0-1. I'm quite sure the version from debian stable and newer also support --remove-restrictions.
Nik
Leslie
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On 2025-02-19 15:37:38 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
Anno domini 2025 Wed, 19 Feb 14:31:26 -0600
J Leslie Turriff via tde-users scripsit:
On 2025-02-19 13:34:34 J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
On 2025-02-19 04:01:32 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
Hi all!
This Workaround is for all that are plaged by kpdf not able to open encrypted PDFs. - It decrypts PDFs with the infamouse empty password (that failes on libpoppler) - It asks for the password for encrypted PDFs and removes the encryption (if password is correct)
How to use:
- Save the attached program to your ~/bin (or wherever you would like
it to reside) - Change the file association for PDF to use this program - Open some encrypted/not-encrypted PDFs that did not work in plain kpdf.
Commandline: "/where/ever/you/put/it/decrypt-pdf" PDF.pdf ...
TDE specific file URLS like sftp:// don't work, but maybe "somebody" feels the need to add those.
--> KPDF can now handle all PDFs that it could not cope with.
Enjoy. Nik
-- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...
And in openSUSE, pdfinfo is provided by the pdf-tools package.
Hm... and my version of qpdf doesn't support --remove-restrictions. :-(
That's bad. I have devuan ceres, qpdf is version 11.10.0-1. I'm quite sure the version from debian stable and newer also support --remove-restrictions.
Nik
Here I get:
@14:33:26 leslie@pinto wd=~ $ qpdf --password='' --decrypt --remove-restrictions --replace-input /usr/local/Documentation/Software/Languages/Bash/AdvancedBashScriptingGuide.pdf
qpdf: unknown option --remove-restrictions
Usage: qpdf [options] infile outfile For detailed help, run qpdf --help
rc=2 @17:10:27 leslie@pinto wd=~ $ qpdf --version qpdf version 10.3.1 Run qpdf --copyright to see copyright and license information. rc=0
openSUSE is pretty conservative and a lot of tools are far from bleeding-edge. :-)
Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.6 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.3 tde-config: 1.0
On 2/19/25 14:37, J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
On 2025-02-19 04:01:32 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
Hi all!
This Workaround is for all that are plaged by kpdf not able to open encrypted PDFs. - It decrypts PDFs with the infamouse empty password (that failes on libpoppler) - It asks for the password for encrypted PDFs and removes the encryption (if password is correct)
How to use:
- Save the attached program to your ~/bin (or wherever you would like it to
reside) - Change the file association for PDF to use this program
- Open some encrypted/not-encrypted PDFs that did not work in plain kpdf.
Commandline: "/where/ever/you/put/it/decrypt-pdf" PDF.pdf ...
TDE specific file URLS like sftp:// don't work, but maybe "somebody" feels the need to add those.
--> KPDF can now handle all PDFs that it could not cope with.
Enjoy. Nik
mailing list stripped the attachment.
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And in openSUSE, pdfinfo is provided by the pdf-tools package.
Leslie
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Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
Anno domini 2025 Thu, 20 Feb 01:58:05 -0500 gene heskett via tde-users scripsit:
[...]
--> KPDF can now handle all PDFs that it could not cope with.
Enjoy. Nik
mailing list stripped the attachment.
Hi Gene!
It's in the lists archive: https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@trinitydeskto...
Nik
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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On 2/20/25 02:07, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
Anno domini 2025 Thu, 20 Feb 01:58:05 -0500 gene heskett via tde-users scripsit:
[...]
--> KPDF can now handle all PDFs that it could not cope with.
Enjoy. Nik
mailing list stripped the attachment.
Hi Gene!
It's in the lists archive: https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@trinitydeskto...
Nik
Got it, Thanks Nik
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 01:58:05 -0500 gene heskett via tde-users users@trinitydesktop.org wrote:
mailing list stripped the attachment.
Came through for me (small attach with mimetype "text/x-shellscript"), so it isn't the list that's at fault, but something else in your email setup.
E. Liddell
On 2025-02-20 06:31:55 E. Liddell via tde-users wrote:
On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 01:58:05 -0500
gene heskett via tde-users users@trinitydesktop.org wrote:
mailing list stripped the attachment.
Came through for me (small attach with mimetype "text/x-shellscript"), so it isn't the list that's at fault, but something else in your email setup.
E. Liddell
Probably a "Nanny" filter that disallows code attachments.
Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.6 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.3 tde-config: 1.0
On 2/21/25 00:30, J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
On 2025-02-20 06:31:55 E. Liddell via tde-users wrote:
On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 01:58:05 -0500
gene heskett via tde-users users@trinitydesktop.org wrote:
mailing list stripped the attachment.
Came through for me (small attach with mimetype "text/x-shellscript"), so it isn't the list that's at fault, but something else in your email setup.
E. Liddell
Probably a "Nanny" filter that disallows code attachments.
tbird beta user here, likely suspects?
Leslie
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Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
On 2025-02-21 04:13:15 gene heskett via tde-users wrote:
On 2/21/25 00:30, J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
On 2025-02-20 06:31:55 E. Liddell via tde-users wrote:
On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 01:58:05 -0500
gene heskett via tde-users users@trinitydesktop.org wrote:
mailing list stripped the attachment.
Came through for me (small attach with mimetype "text/x-shellscript"), so it isn't the list that's at fault, but something else in your email setup.
E. Liddell
Probably a "Nanny" filter that disallows code attachments.
tbird beta user here, likely suspects?
Some mail server through which your email is routed en route to its destination.
Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.6 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.3 tde-config: 1.0
On 2/21/25 05:23, J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
On 2025-02-21 04:13:15 gene heskett via tde-users wrote:
On 2/21/25 00:30, J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
On 2025-02-20 06:31:55 E. Liddell via tde-users wrote:
On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 01:58:05 -0500
gene heskett via tde-users users@trinitydesktop.org wrote:
mailing list stripped the attachment.
Came through for me (small attach with mimetype "text/x-shellscript"), so it isn't the list that's at fault, but something else in your email setup.
E. Liddell
Probably a "Nanny" filter that disallows code attachments.
tbird beta user here, likely suspects?
Some mail server through which your email is routed en route to its destination.
I haven't installed anything like that. that I know of. mail server is mail2world via the local shentel cable tv company.
Leslie
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Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
On 2025-02-21 08:35:12 gene heskett via tde-users wrote:
On 2/21/25 05:23, J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
On 2025-02-21 04:13:15 gene heskett via tde-users wrote:
On 2/21/25 00:30, J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
On 2025-02-20 06:31:55 E. Liddell via tde-users wrote:
On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 01:58:05 -0500
gene heskett via tde-users users@trinitydesktop.org wrote:
mailing list stripped the attachment.
Came through for me (small attach with mimetype "text/x-shellscript"), so it isn't the list that's at fault, but something else in your email setup.
E. Liddell
Probably a "Nanny" filter that disallows code attachments.
tbird beta user here, likely suspects?
Some mail server through which your email is routed en route to its destination.
I haven't installed anything like that. that I know of. mail server is mail2world via the local shentel cable tv company.
No, no. This would be something happening on an intermediate mail server between the one that provides your mail service and your desktop.
Another possibility is that your email provider is gratuitously moving mail items that it thinks are spam into the spam folder on their server, so it never gets sent on to you. I'm having trouble with missing emails myself at the moment, and while investigating I used the web mail interface (I HATE it and only use it when I MUST (maybe once or twice a year), and discovered 321 emails that had been held in the server's spam folder. I had to call their customer support to find out how to defeat their "helpful" intervention. Unfortunately, after they downloaded, the emails I'm currently searching for were not in that batch, so the first possibility is likely my problem.
Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.6 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.3 tde-config: 1.0
On Friday 21 February 2025 12:15:58 J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
On 2025-02-21 08:35:12 gene heskett via tde-users wrote:
On 2/21/25 05:23, J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
On 2025-02-21 04:13:15 gene heskett via tde-users wrote:
On 2/21/25 00:30, J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
On 2025-02-20 06:31:55 E. Liddell via tde-users wrote:
On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 01:58:05 -0500
gene heskett via tde-users users@trinitydesktop.org wrote: > mailing list stripped the attachment.
Came through for me (small attach with mimetype "text/x-shellscript"), so it isn't the list that's at fault, but something else in your email setup.
E. Liddell
Probably a "Nanny" filter that disallows code attachments.
tbird beta user here, likely suspects?
Some mail server through which your email is routed en route to its destination.
I haven't installed anything like that. that I know of. mail server is mail2world via the local shentel cable tv company.
No, no. This would be something happening on an intermediate mail server between the one that provides your mail service and your desktop.
Another possibility is that your email provider is gratuitously moving mail items that it thinks are spam into the spam folder on their server, so it never gets sent on to you. I'm having trouble with missing emails myself at the moment, and while investigating I used the web mail interface (I HATE it and only use it when I MUST (maybe once or twice a year), and discovered 321 emails that had been held in the server's spam folder. I had to call their customer support to find out how to defeat their "helpful" intervention. Unfortunately, after they downloaded, the emails I'm currently searching for were not in that batch, so the first possibility is likely my problem.
Leslie
Yeah, I am guessing that it is Gene's ISP that filters some of the more obvious or egregious spam, as well as any attachments that look like they could be something unwanted ... such as a shell script.
Almost certainly, no actual person looks at attachments, etc., but an automated filter probably can detect a shell script, without knowing its contents or purpose, or its origin, so it just gets blocked.
Maybe, if actual human beings knew that Gene was on a computer users mailing list, and that we sometimes share such tips, tricks and scripts, they would have recognized that it's probably okay. But automated filters aren't that smart.
Bill
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